[5206] phmose (St. Matt. xxii. 34). The word occurs also in St. Matt xxii. 12: St. Mark i. 25; iv. 39; St. Luke iv. 35: 1 Cor. ix. 9; 1 Tim. v. 18; 1 Peter. ii 16.
[5207] Comp. the two accounts in St. Matthew xxii. 34-40 and in St. Mark xii. 28-34.
[5208] Ab. ii. 1; iv. 2.
[5209] Sanh. xi. 3.
[5210] Deb. R. 6.
[5211] St. Mark xii. 28.
[5212] Meyer rightly remarks on the use of gapseis here, implying moral high estimation and corresponding conduct, and not philen, which refers to love as an affection. The latter could not have been commanded, although such phila of the world is forbidden (St. James iv. 4) while the philen of one's own psuch (St. John xii. 25) and the m philen tn krio (1 Cor. xvi. 22) are stigmatised.
[5213] St. Matt. xxii 4.
[5214] The Jewish view of these commands has been previously explained.
[5215] St. Mark xii. 33, 34.
[5216] This also shows that the later dogma of Messiah the Son of Joseph had not yet been invented.
[5217] Comp. Appendix IX.
[5218] St. Matt. xxii. 46.
[5219] St. Matt. xxiii.
[5220] St. Luke xi. 37-54.
[5221] Rosh haSh. ii. 9.
[5222] Even the literal charge of teaching and not doing is brought in Jewish writings (see, for example, Ber. R. 34).
[5223] St. Matt. xxiii. 3, 4.
[5224] vv. 5-7.
[5225] vv. 8-12.
[5226] See especially Jer. Ber. i. 7, p. 3 b.
[5227] Ab. iii. 11.
[5228] B. Kama 79 b.
[5229] Jer. Sanh. 30 a. at bottom
[5230] Nidd. 66 a.
[5231] So notably in the well-known eighteen points' {hebrew} Ab. Sar. 36 a.
[5232] Twenty-four such are mentioned. Jer. Bets. 60 b.
[5233] Many, very many of them are so utterly trivial and absurd, that only the hairsplitting ingenuity of theologians can account for them: others so profane that it is difficult to understand how any religion could co-exist with them. Conceive, for example, tow schools in controversy whether it was lawful to kill a louse on the Sabbath. (Schabb. 12 a; 107 b.)
[5234] Sot. 21 b.
[5235] vol. i. p. 101.
[5236] On the Tephillin, comp. Sketches of Jewish Scoial Life,' pp. 219-244.
[5237] Jer. Ber. 4 c, lines 7 and 8 from top.
[5238] Menach 37 b.
[5239] Makk. 24 a.
[5240] These titles are put in the mouth of King Jehoshaphat when saluting the Rabbis.
[5241] Horay, 13 b.
[5242] Babha B. 120 a.
[5243] Ber. 27 b.
[5244] Jer. Ber. 9 a, about the middle. Comp. Levy. Neuheber. Wörterb, ii. 10 a.
[5245] Jer. Ber. 9 a, about the middle.
[5246] u. s.
[5247] Jer. Sanh x. 1.
[5248] Pes. 53 b.
[5249] Gitt. 62 a.
[5250] Horay. 13 a.
[5251] Sanh.90 b line 3 from top.
[5252] See for example Bahba Mets 85 b and 86 a.
[5253] Ber. R. 96. towards close
[5254] Babha Mets 86 a.
[5255] See the quotations to that effect in Schöttgen, Wetstein, and Wünsche ad loc.
[5256] Hac clausula (ver. 11) ostendit, senon sophistice litigasse de vocibus, serem points spectasse (Calvin).
[5257] St. Mark ix. 35; St. Luke xiv. 11; xviii. 14.
[5258] Keim argues at length, but very inconclusively, that this is a different Discourse, addressed to a different audience and at a different time.
[5259] St. Matt. xxiii. 13-33.
[5260] Although St. Matt. xxiii. 14 is in all probability spurious, this woe' occurs in St. Mark xii. 40, and in St. Luke xx. 47.
[5261] Ber. 32 b; Yoma 29 a.
[5262] Sot. 21 b; comp. Jer. Sot. 19 a.
[5263] Horay, 13 a.
[5264] Yeb. 47 a. b; Nidd. 13 b.
[5265] Tacit. Hist. v. 5; Seneca in August. De Civit. Dei vi. 11(2).
[5266] For passages in proof see Wetsein ad loc.
[5267] Ant. xviii. 3. 5; xx. 2, 4; Jewish War ii.17. 10 &c.; 20, 2; Life 23.